Georgii Vladimov

Svetlana McMillin (University College London)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 19 Feb 1931
Died 19 Oct 2003
Activity 1954-2003

Places

Born in Ukraine
Active in Russia; Germany

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Vladimov's Works

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In the short period between the liberalisation which followed the XX Congress of the Soviet Communist Party (1956), where the repressions of Stalin’s era were exposed for the first time, and the end of Khrushchev’s Thaw in 1964, new voices began to appear in Russian literature, a pleiad of young writers called later the “shestidesiatniki” (writers of the 1960s). One of the most talented of this group was Georgii Vladimov. He was, however, more than an outstanding writer: he was an honest citizen and one of the very few who openly protested against the oppressive totalitarian regime in the USSR. These two vocations, creative and civic, determined his difficult and at times tragic destiny.

Georgii Vladimov (Volosevich) was born in 1931 in Kharkov into a family of teachers of Russian

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Citation: McMillin, Svetlana. "Georgii Vladimov". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 October 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13061, accessed 25 November 2024.]